how to block a website through firewall in windows 7 ultimate 64 bit

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Dear Halima S and Microsoft support team,

I am not trying to be rude or come off as a know it all, but Windows Firewall DOES in fact allow website blocking via IP address(es).  While MS may assume that everyone uses I.E. for browsing, there are many of us that have multiple browsers installed and find I.E. to be cumbersome and antiquated in comparison. Windows 7 and 8(smh) have some wonderful global tools that far surpass the program level controls of your answer. 

1. Open Windows Firewall from the control panel
2. Select Advanced Settings
3. Select Inbound Rules from the left selection pane4. Select New Rule from the right selection pane

  a. select Custom and click next

  b. leave All Programs selected and click next

  c. click next on the Protocols and Ports page  

  d. on the scope page enter the IP (i.e. 192.168.1.0 NOT the WWW) address of the site you want to block

      in the "Which remote IP addresses does this rule apply to?" section

(if you don't know the IP or how to find it,search the internet for "how to find an ip address with nslookup")

  e. select Block the connection on the Action page, click next

  f. leave all boxes checked on Profile page if you don't ever want to see the website on any network      connection, modify if you want to allow on a Domain, public or private network

  g. name the new rule (something meaningful so you can remember it if you want to edit it later)

      and click Finish

5. select Outbound Rules from the left selection pane and repeat ALL steps precisely from #4
6. test in ANY browser... not just Internet Explorer

 The rules can be edited later if you want to add more IP addresses to block.

If you want to disable the rules for a short time without deleting them follow steps 1-3 then find your rule(it should be toward the top of the list), click to highlight the rule then click disable from the right selection pane. Do the same for the outbound rule and you can now turn this on and off when you want.

Hi ramakrishna91,

1.    Do you want to block some websites?

You will not be able to block website access using Windows firewall but you can use Internet explorer to access to the websites by adding those websites in the restricted sites.

a)   Click the Start button, click  Control Panel, type Internet options in the search box, and then click  Internet Options.

b)   Click the Security tab, click a  Restricted sitesand then click  Sites.

c)    To add a site, type the URL into the Add this website to the zone box, and then click  Add.

Why can't I open or copy files from the web?

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Why-cant-I-open-or-copy-files-from-the-web

Hope this helps!

Halima S   - Microsoft Support.

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When I’m a page I don’t want

I Click the Tools tab

Go to Internet Options - last item on the list

Click the Security tab

My Restricted sites looks like this

Then I can block that specific page

and don’t have to type or copy the site URL

Going to the Control Panel and clicking Network and Internet brought me to the same site as clicking the Tools tab

Thank you for that information. I'll save this so I can use it next time.

i've tried the solution here...why does it work for some sites and not for others?  I've been trying to block some chat websites from my children.